- Sourav Ganguly lost a toss for the 26th time in his career. He now holds the dubious distinction of losing most tosses by an Indian captain. Ganguly was earlier at level with Sunil Gavaskar with 25 losses.
- Rahul Dravid equalled Sachin Tendulkar's world record of most consecutive Test appearances since debut. Tendulkar had played 84 Test matches on the trot since making his debut against Pakistan in 1989-90.
- Hashim Amla, right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, became the first player of Indian origin to play Test cricket for South Africa. Overall, he is the 295th player to make a Test appearance for South Africa.
- Irfan Pathan (3-61) recorded his best bowling figures at home, surpassing his 1 for 38 against Australia at Bangalore last month. In his previous two Tests at home he had claimed only two wickets at an average of 84.00.
- Jacques Kallis (103 not out) scored 17th hundred of his Test career and the first against India. His previous highest against India was 95 at Bangalore in 1999-00.
- This is also Kallis' 100th score of 50 or more in first-class cricket.
- Kallis has now scored Test hundreds against as many as eight countries. The only country against which Kallis has not been able to score a century is Sri Lanka. Kallis thus became the third South African batsman to score hundreds against eight countries after Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs. Kirsten, in fact, is the only South African batsman to have scored hundreds against all other (9) Test playing countries.
- The 109-run partnership for the third wicket between Jacques Rudolph and Kallis is South Africa's best for this wicket in India, obliterating the 85-run partnership between Andrew Hall and Kallis at Kanpur in first Test of this series.
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